Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statements, each of the women introduces herself to the audience. But the traits of the characters which be prelude conveys would be obvious in any case. And the inclusion of some really banal lines does not help. [Of tea] "We Japanese women drink a lot of it... Become it... Swallow the tempest... And nobody knows... The storm inside." One can only express these sentiments so many times after Oliver Stone's movie. "The Joy Luck Club," before they start sounding simply silly...
...witness to the kind of care a friend of mine received from UHS last fall and spring. She was sick for a large part of her first year, complaining of a sore throat which caused an inability to swallow...
Finally, because her inability to swallow prevented her from eating, she passed out. Once again...
Hassan is a magnificent, flinty raconteur. He says things that would never be considered politically correct and are sometimes difficult to swallow, but he is fiercely unapologetic. He speaks with a forthrightness and integrity that not even flourishes of rhetoric can disguise. He is also marvelously entertaining and has a way with maxims that would put La Rochefoucauld to shame. One priceless example: "Love sits on a dungheap, and woe to him that slips...
...terribly swollen glands," she says. "I couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, I don't remember ever being so sick...